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Myths, Legends, & Dreams
Protective dragons. Conniving succubi, and desperate thieves. Fierce battles and talking marionettes. Inside the covers you will find stories with unique worldbuilding and gripping characters.
Myths, Legends, and Dreams is a Speculative Fiction anthology featuring the works of the members of the Worldsmyths writing community. Founded in 2016, we wanted to do something BIG to celebrate our fifth anniversary, and this anthology was born!
Sixteen stories feature fresh new ideas from budding authors. Inside you will get to know the work of Ryan Gale, Michael Epanchin, Sean Kane, Allusir, Freya Bell, Ally Kelly, Emma Schouten, JC Farnham, Caitlin Donovan, CP Mills, Alex Harvey, Natalie J. Holden, Odessa Silver, and Nicole L. Soper Gorden.
The Shadow of Gloom
**Book One of The Accursed Chronicles**
August, a man from our world, stumbles into a magical realm called Laelmos, a land plagued by conspirers, winter, and the Vale, a troublesome source of corrupted magic that can hijack the system of any creature.
Unbeknownst to August, there is evil hiding in the shadows of Laelmos, conspiring and plotting for the return of the Vale's supremacy, and it just so happens that August has been plunged straight into its claws. After stumbling into the hands of Gloom, a leader of The Remnant, August is bound to Gloom's side and is pulled helplessly into the turmoil of Laelmos. August wishes he could return home, but his purpose in Laelmos is much bigger than he first thought as an awakening happens within him, turning his world upside. August is left to wonder whether his life will ever be normal again or if he will have to embrace his new reality that threatens to destroy him.
[ content warning: vulgar language, violence, and mentions of suicide + suicide death ]
[ total word count: 77,000-78,000 ]
Thrall of the Dark Wood
Young mother Ilse arrived in Forst village seven years ago with an infant in her arms and another little one on the way. Secretive about her previous life, most assumed Ilse to be an unwed harlot, driven from her home by her family’s shame. Ilse is especially tight-lipped about the most pressing question: who the father of her children is.
Ilse bore the burden of their rumors with ease, and for seven years lived in relative peace in a small house just outside of the Dark Wood – a forest that many believed was home to inhuman creatures. None but Ilse had ever dared to live that close, fearing that they would be lured into the Wood, never to return.
When Ilse and her children disappear, seemingly out of thin air, the village assumes the Dark Wood has claimed their lives. What they don’t know is that the father of Ilse’s children, who most assumed to be some nobody from Ilse’s home village, is actually much closer than they thought. He comes from the Dark Wood – and he wants his family back.
Magician's Touch
5th September 2024 update: Still working on it. My writing time is unpredictable around family and work commitments, but I really enjoy writing, and I love my characters, so I keep doing it. Cover is in production.
Under the Glistening Moon
Michelle was a hopeless romantic, who couldn’t give out her heart away despite being lonely. Light shines her way when Felix comes her way. Everything was going well, until, Felix was sent to war.
Not So Ordinary
This story revolves around the life of 4 different people:
Sara: a high schooler with a conservative personality who’s good at only one thing; studying, but she studies well only to maintain her reputation as “the genius one” with no aim in life. Till now when the SAT is just around the corner, she doesn’t know which path to take because nothing interests her.
Next comes the heartbreaker, Elijah: a college dropout, during his first year in college he changed his major 5 times and then finally left college; his father being a very laidback person wasn’t affected by his son’s antics. Now he’s 24 with a high school degree doing random jobs because he must support himself overall. His good looks get him all the girls, but he can’t stay with a girl longer than a month because after a month they start to get clingy, wanting attention whereas all he wants in a relationship is physical intimacy.
Then comes Charlotte: age 33, a doctor, she had spent all her 20s paying her student loans but is still in debt because of his father’s health condition. Because of this reason, all man who approaches her run away; no one wants a woman whose 70% pay is used to pay off her debt monthly. So, she’s called “The pitiful doctor/spinster” by her relatives.
And in the end, comes Mr. William: a schoolteacher, who had been teaching the same subject at the same school for the past 10 years. He’s a very intellectual person and could do much better with his life but one thing that he had never done is to take a risk, although his monotonous routine bores him still he keeps living the same repetitive life.
These 4 people who are living in different worlds have something in common, their lives are repetitive with no challenges_ in simple words they are ORDINARY.
These 4 Ordinary people don’t know what is waiting for them, entangled in a world of murder, crime, trafficking, mafias, politics, and everything bad; wait and see how their lives will get connected.
Hammer
The Knights Legends MC series.
This is a book about Hammer, Thor, Chris, Stigz, and a whole lot of other MC members struggling to get free of their captive pasts and their stories will not always end in happily ever after.
The Series Includes:
Thor and Sabine. (Complete) Book 1
Hammer and Pixie. (Ongoing) Book 2
Chris and Paige. (Coming Soon) Book 3
Hammer has had a pretty crappy upbringing, but he made the best he could out of a shitty beginning. He married his high school sweetheart Pascal duPont. They were happy or so he thought until she burned him in a way that would forever scar him. He joined the Knights Legends as their Enforcer and became the cold, heartless man that shows no mercy for anyone.
Pixie is a College student that gets disowned by her Christian family and falls in with the Knights Legends. She has been harboring feelings for the infamous cold-hearted Enforcer.
After spending five years of pining after a man she would never have, she finally releases herself from the bondage and decides to finally move on.
Can Pixie make her life choices stick or will she forever be bonded to a man that can't make up his mind what he wants?
Will Hammer eventually get his shit together and make Pixie the happiest woman alive?
Hammer's life goes from hell to complicated, in one fowl swoop, when his past comes back to haunt him.
A Fraction of Average Love
Side story to YPME
Myles never planned on falling for his best friend, but he did. The problem is that Jae is always in love with someone and that person has never been him. Every time Myles has tried to get up the courage to tell Jae about his feelings, he has become suckered into being Jae's savior, his crutch, and his rebound sex. But Myles is done, he wants it to be for real, or he is ending it all. What can they do when the line between friendship has gotten this blurred? And how can they finally open up and tell their feelings, and what has been stopping them from being together all along?
A fraction of Love is all they wanted, so why has it been so hard for them to obtain?
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WitchFall
A particularly dark tale. Not for the faint of heart.
He was the all-powerful Magistrate Mathis.
The man that accused the witches and then found them guilty in the dungeons of WitchFall Fortress.
I had feared ever being one of them, but not enough not to be determined to figure out why he didn't seem to be what he was.
So I followed him into the woods one day and discovered the one secret he was willing to wreak havoc to keep.
The secret he'd make me pay for ever knowing.
And if he couldn't have me on my terms, well he was certainly powerful enough to find a way, wasn't he?
The most horrible kind of way...
Barely understanding what was happening I soon found myself in the worst place I could possibly be. And under his complete control...